The Ente CLI is a Command Line Utility for exporting data from Ente. It also does a few more things, for example, you can use it to decrypt the export from Ente Auth.

The easiest way is to download a pre-built binary from the GitHub releases.

You can also build these binaries yourself

./release.sh

Or you can build from source

 go build -o "bin/ente" main.go

The generated binaries are standalone, static binaries with no dependencies. You can run them directly, or put them somewhere in your PATH.

There is also an option to use Docker.

Run the help command to see all available commands.

ente --help

If you wish, you can add multiple accounts (your own and that of your family members) and export all data using this tool.

ente account add

ente account list

ente account update --app auth/photos --email email@domain.com --dir ~/photos

ente export

You can view more cli documents at docs. To update the docs, run the following command:

go run main.go docs

If you fancy Docker, you can also run the CLI within a container.

Modify the docker-compose.yml and add volume. cli-data volume is mandatory, you can add more volumes for your export directory.

Build and run the container in detached mode

docker-compose up -d --build

Note that BuildKit is needed to build this image. If you face this issue, a quick fix is to add DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1 in front of the build command.

exec into the container

docker-compose exec ente-cli /bin/sh -c "./ente-cli version"
docker-compose exec ente-cli /bin/sh -c "./ente-cli account add"